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i have two email account, 600k email, around 30 email rule, around 30 mail folder
after i upgrade to lion, the mail is super slow and always high cpu loading, super slow to open the mail folder and receive mail
my mac is new macbook pro core i7 ... i can not imagine how slow if using old macbook
may i ask is there any way to speed up my mail? (snow leopard mail is very fast)
and this is all active businese email, archive is not a good solution.
Anyone using Mail Unread Menu? I quit using this app and Mail is super fast now.
Many thanks for recommending Sparrow. Mail has given me problems on a July 2011 Macair and MacMini ever since the Lion install - mainly just incredibly slow uploading of mail sometimes taking hours after the same mail uploads to my iphone or gmail - and Sparrow works like a charm and is clearly the app Lion Mail sought to copy but so miserably failed, like so much else in the Mac software drawer sine July 2011. I have already started to think about moving on from Lion to Linux when my current Macs are slowing down (though in some departments they never got up to the promised speed including Mail). Now all I need is an app to get my MacAir reliably to hook up with my wifi!
Just a guess - but try disabling wpa-psk on your router and have it broadbast only in wpa2-psk. Airport doesn't allow connections to wpa-psk for security issues (which, of course, Apple forgot to tell anyone about).
I tried all of the suggestions so there may be a synergistic effect, but I didn't get a decent result until I tried MacFinale's suggestion. I can finally use Mail again! Excellent! I'm curious *why* it worked since I wouldn't think that my contact would have much to do with my Mail speed....
Was running it smoothly on my 17' MBPro I7 8GB Mem and 512 GB SSD, so guess pretty fast system yet since a week, mail sloooooow at startup. Rainbow spinning wheel. ***?
Tried many things: Fixing all kinds of disk stuff, Re-indexing Mails, etc, nothing works.
Yep Sparrow rules.
Tried to go to ~/Library/Application Support/Address Book/ but nowhere to be found on my mac (yes I'm running Lion)
So couldn't test that one
Anyway, Apple, You're slacking...
switching mail to run in 32bit mode resolved the issue for me.
2011 mac air I have about 60k emails
I have been experiencing the same as everyone else and had not found a 100% fix, but I just went in and deleted my Daylite app and my mail client went back to normal speeds.
I'm no guru, but maybe an older app you may have running that uses the calendar and mail as accessories is the issue.
So far (fingers crossed) it has worked for me. Please respond and let me know if anyone gets any value from this.
Thanks
Lion Mail is super slow
